As some of you may have gathered, the Ain’t Friends team is preparing to make another stop motion film. Next week I am flying out to Halifax to visit my buddy Chris and play with animation. It’s very likely that one of us will have murdered, or maimed,  the other by the time I am [...]

I really love Wind In The Willows. Mind you, I spend more time watching kid’s shows than anything else. If you don’t know it, it’s a series of children’s stories written by an Englishman way back in the early 1900s. Since then it’s been made into radioplays, cartoons and apparently even a live action movie [...]

Next week is Colleen’s birthday. She doesn’t really like people to know about it. You can’t find the date online (until now). She’s not really big on celebrations… So, I thought it would be cool to have a big contest for everyone on the internet and give away a bunch of awesome free stuff to [...]

I went out looking for locations to shoot a few scenes of our next stop-motion project, “People Who Live Under Rocks”. Without giving away too much, here is a taste of where we’ll be shooting. Colleen is hard at work on the mannequins and I’ve got some more script editing to do, but we’ll fill [...]

Our debut comic EZ Grocery & Video will be at Eyelevel Gallery‘s Reshelving project starting March 1st and running until the end of the month. If you are in Halifax, go check out the show. You’ll find the gallery at 2159 Gottingen St. There are loads of cool zines and these are some of the last [...]

Now you can go inside of Chris’ head and read some of the ridiculous things he tells himself are intelligent thoughts. Don’t particularly recommend it though. Here are a few examples… I never used to like walnuts. Now I have a lot in common with them. People who go to dog parks just to watch [...]

I often struggle with huge feelings of inadequacy as an artist. Unfortunately it often leaves me afraid to draw for months on end. But sometimes you just have to face these fears head on and start again. Thankfully I have great buds who aren’t afraid  to say “Colleen, enough is enough, we need to get [...]

We went AWOL for a while there. We had a leave of absense. Nobody was home. Colleen was catching up on Gilmore Girls & Coronation Street (she alternates each episode to avoid puking her guts out from cheesey sappy overdose). Christopher locked himself in his room for 4 months. A small sign on his door [...]

Ritual Music and Books in Australia will soon be carrying EZ Grocery and Video. Jackson, the owner, was kind enough to ask us to send a couple of books his way. Unfortunatly it will take quite a long time to get to him so give it a couple of weeks. It’s encouraging knowing that our books [...]

In Ez Grocery there are characters called The Ratcatchers who play songs on the roof of their apartment. Colleen thought it would be cool to actually write these songs and hide them in the margins of the Ratcatcher scenes. This video is me doing just that and filming my fingers as reference so that she [...]